Jashank Jeremy

Current State of Play

The site is built using Jekyll and a range of evil
hacks written in Ruby for some semidynamic content generation.

The current style is look-14.01, codename ‘SIGURG’. I wanted to lighten and
tidy up the page layout. The content fonts are Lato and TeX Gyre Pagella.

This version of the site (15.01.00) was (re)built at 2015-01-19 09:06:07 +1100.

Technical History

Mostly, I avoid using big hairy website engines (although I have had
brief forays into Google Sites and Windows Spaces), and prefer to
write my own code to generate and manage the sites, typically as a
shell hack or with some nifty Perl.

In recent years, I’ve found John McFarlane’s Pandoc utility does
wonders for these things, and I still use it as a Swiss-army knife of
content format transformations.

This site, however, is brought together with the power and the glory
of Tom Preston-Werner’s Jekyll transformer, to which I’ve also
contributed.

Nowadays, it is transformed into a monster by
Jekyll running on
Ruby, with RVM.

Style History

look-13.01 codename ‘SIGBUS’

In January 2013, I tidied up a lot. I migrated away from Bootstrap,
Glyphicons and Pandoc in my website build, and had a fairly major patch
(faster_lsi) integrated into Jekyll. I switched to Kramdown for the
Markdown transform, and wrote my own style sheets.

look-13.02 codename ‘SIGSEGV’

look-13.03 codename ‘SIGSYS’

In February and March I cleaned up the styles, for look-13.02 and
look-13.03, ‘SIGSEGV’ and ‘SIGSYS’, respectively.

look-13.05 codename ‘SIGPIPE/reboot’

In May I switched back to Twitter Bootstrap, version 2.3, for the styling
and theming.

look-13.08 codename ‘SIGALRM’

Over the three months before this update, I’d been doing a variety of odd
web design jobs, culminating in the construction of the Alpine Charters
website. I learned a lot of things about doing web construction right
during this time, and integrated them into the first major revamp of the
styles and the content in a while. The changes were so big, in fact, that
I even bothered to branch the Git repo that I keep this site in, to hack
on.

look-13.09 codename ‘SIGTERM’

My aim this time around was to use what I’d learned on my big design job in
the last month to simplify and clean up the page layout, while making the
site blend together neatly.

look-14.01 codename ‘SIGURG’

I had a poke at Bootstrap, and get something that works. It
doesn’t look like Bootstrap, true, but it is.

The photos

We like our photography. We look for nice cameras and tend to use
them a lot. Our photos have been taken with a range of cameras
including a Sony Cybershot, an Olympus FE-210 then a FE-310 (by far
the worst camera I’ve ever used), a Canon PowerShot SX20 IS, an
Olympus E-PL1, an Olympus E-P3, as well as a pair of Huawei Ideos
phones which take ‘all right’ pictures. I also have about five years
experience with DSLRs – mostly with Canon EOS cameras, but I’ve used
Olympus and Nikon DSLRs, too.

All of these photos I took or was very close to the person taking them, and
these are all from the photo collection that my family has slowly been
assembling since our first digital camera in 2003. Our photo collection sits on
our media tank, and is something like 85GB in size. They were carefully trimmed
with netpbm (and occasional help from Adobe’s Photoshop). Photograph
information was extracted with exiftool, part of Perl’s Image::ExifTool
module.